I’m excited to get started on a new, well-received, biography of George Washington. It’s called Washington: A Life, written by Ron Chernow, whose last book was a wonderful biography of Alexander Hamilton. Here is a synopsis of the book, published at Barnes and Noble: “In […]

I’m a great fan of Bruce Chatwin’s writing. I’ve read all of his works aside from one of his “novels” (fans will know why I put that in quotes) as well as two biographies, so I was excited to learn that a volume of his […]